Fuel-feeding mechanism



J. F. ROGERS. FUEL FEEDING MECHANISM. FILED AUG 2! 1920' ll atenteel Dec 2@, W22,

, UNHTEJ JUHN F. ROGERS, 01E CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OHIO, ASSIGNOB TO THE WELLll IAN- SEA-VEEFMORG'AN GOMPANY, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

FUEL-FEEDING: MECHANISM.

' hpplication'filed. August 21, 1920. Serial No. 405,163.

To all whom it may, concern;

Be it known that l JOHN F1 Bosses, a citizen of the Unite States, residing at Cleveland Heights, in the county of Cu ahoga and State of Ohio, have invents a certain new and useful Improvement in Fuel-Feeding Mechanism, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement upon the fuel feeding mechanism for solid fuel which forms the subject matter of the Rogers and McClimon' Patent No. 1,330,749.

The principal object-of the invention is to efiect a substantial reduction in the cost of producing such feeding mechanism.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts shown in the drawing and hereinafter described and definitely pointed out in the appended claims.

llnthe drawing, Fig. 1 is a side elevation of so much. of the fuel feeding mechanism as is necessary to disclose the present invention; Fig, 2 is a front view partly in sec tion, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a machined ring from which segments are cut to form the valve holding plates 40.

The feeding mechanism is like that which is shown in said prior patent in that it includes a chute 10 which is intended to be secured on the top of a gas producer and through which the fuel is fed. The lower or base portion 10 of the chute is formed with a semi-cylindrical top surface 12 through which is a downwardly extended fuel passage 13 which will of course be in open communication with a hole through the top of the gas producer. This semicylindrical top surface 12 of the chute base serves as a valve seat on which a rotatable cylindrical fuel valve 30 is fitted.

This valve includes a centralhub 35, end plates 36 and a plurality of radial partitions 34 which extend from one end plate to the other, thereb forming in the valve a plurality of perip erally opening pockets 31.

In the respects specified the construction shown is like that which is shown and described in detail in said prior patent.

In the present construction, however, at each end of the valve, the end plate is provided with an integral coaxial ,outwardly extended cylindrical boss 39 of smaller diameter than'the end plate.

40-4=O represent two plates which are in the form of segments of a ring. These are secured to the side walls of the chute above the valve. They extend downward, and their inner faces 41 overlap and engage the outer 4 The described construction may not be any more efiicient than other means for prevent- I ing the valve from moving endwise and from TISHIg from its seat; but it is subfiantially w struction with which I am familiar. The valve may be a casting, and it may be rendered suitable for use by a simple turning operation which finishes up the cylindrical surfaces of the valve arms and of the end cheaper than any other equally eflicientcoribeen done the ring may be sawed into segcave valve seat forming not more than half .of a cylinder and through which is a fuel discharge passage, a cylindrical valve which is rotatably supported upon said seat and has ends and one or more peripherally open; ing fuel pockets between said ends,--each end plate being formed with an outwardly projecting coaxial cylindrical boss of smaller diameter, and plates fixed to the sides of the chute above the valve,each plate overlapping the outer surface of the adjacent end, and having an arc-shaped lower surface ltd 2 'i Lfsesia which overlies the cylindrical boss on the valve and prevents the valve from lifting from its seat.

2. In feedlnechanism for gas producers, the combination of a chute containing a concave Valve seat forming not more than half of a cylinder and through which is a fuel discharge passage, a cylindrical valve which is'rotatably supported. upon said seat and has ends and one or more peripherally opening fuel pockets between said ends,each

end being formed with outwardly projecting coaxial cylindrical boss of smallerends of the valve, said plates having finished arc-shaped lower edges which fit over the peripheries of said bosses.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto afiix my signature.

V JOHN F. ROGERS. 

